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Karthikeyan Balakumar

Gritty Graphs - The Social Media Revolution

In this week’s episode of Gritty Graphs, we will discuss the rise of social media. There’s a reason we're addressing this topic now: this week marks the 20th anniversary of Facebook. The Economist published an article this week that provides an exposé on how social media

A Marketer’s Guide to Turning Defeat into Victory

Introduction About two thousand years ago, there lived a man named Jesus Christ. If we try to understand him objectively, we’d probably think of him as someone who was rejected by his peers, failed politically, did not achieve immediate success, was crucified as a criminal, and betrayed by his

Gritty Graphs - Pies everywhere

In this week's edition of Gritty Graphs, we're tackling a longstanding issue that surfaced with the inception of the first MBA program: the excessive and improper use of pie charts. It's important to acknowledge that pie charts are visually appealing. They resemble pizzas and

Last Week at Sirmaur

Last Week at Sirmaur

This week has been nothing short of a roller coaster ride. It began with the community day event, where we invited industry leaders from all across Poanta to our campus to discuss how we could enhance our connection with the pharmaceutical industry. On Tuesday, Parijat, Advaita and I had our

Gritty Graphs - Crafting Animated Data Narratives with R and gganimate

Remember Hans Rosling TED talk where he shows us how to use the GapMinder Data? Remember the interesting trend lines? We can do something similar with a very powerful R package called ‘gganimate’, and that’s precisely what we will be looking at in this week’s edition of Gritty

Looking beyond metrics

Introduction “What gets measured gets done.” Have you ever considered how critical measurement is in achieving our goals? This axiom is a guiding principle for managers and educators alike. Take, for instance, the challenge of frequent power cuts (remember sitting without power the whole of yesterday?). The first step a

Gritty Graphs - My Tryst with India

My initial encounter with this kind of project occurred while attempting to plot brand stores on a map, a task I undertook as part of a research project that eventually became the basis of my PhD thesis. The solution I devised was quite ingenious. Let me describe the process. Using